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Further discussion and context:

https://www.science.org/content/article/crash-titans-imminen...

Not to jump to conclusions too much but I've recently been seeing a lot of "fake science news" out of China lately. Seeing gelatin on the moon, seeing a "house" on the moon, and now this.

After reading this article, it sounds like another group of researchers are throwing shade saying there's some jumping to conclusions based on very little observational data.

It's funny to see the competitive nature between groups.

The one thing I took from this article though was that the instrument we have built specifcally to detect gravitational waves won't even be effective for this level of event as it is "tuned" for different type of events.

> it is "tuned" for different type of events.

Gravity wave detectors are sensitive to ranges of frequencies, just as electromagnetic wave detectors are. For instance, LIGO is sensitive to gravity waves in the range of 7kHz down to 30Hz. The gravity waves from this merger would be at far lower frequencies/longer wavelengths.

Astronomers are highly competitive.

Read “Einstein’s Shadow”by Seth Fletcher.

It’s a current book about the attempt to image a black hole.

I understand the rush to be first. I was going with funny haha not funny strange as the groups from competing theories just can't stand it when the other theory gets some spotlight attention. I can't imagine picking a theory and making your entire life about proving/solving that theory only to find out you were wrong! Not like move a decimal over wrong, but up the wrong tree wrong.

Like CAGW, for example.

If you mean "Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming", then that's probably the least bad way to be wrong. Because when you're wrong at least the world will be better off. Like betting against your own team: if they lose you win and if they win you don't mind losing.

I hear Venus has lovely weather this time of year

Nah I checked the forecast and it’s cloudy all week long.

Just the other day in another unrelated thread, someone posted a youtube video that introduced me to a new channel. Just today I was watching one of the videos that discusses black hole mergers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJLtT0QXoPo

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